Sunshower

苏格兰折耳猫Apr 2026

3.7

Word count: 415K words
Chapters: 126

Summary

After failing the college entrance exam, small-town girl Nie Yu leaves home to escape her family's grip and seeks refuge in Yancheng with her grandfather Jiang Zhu. Fatherless and abandoned by her mother, she has grown up pretty and academically outstanding amid relatives' scorn. Shortly before the exam, an accident caused her to miss one subject and fail; unwilling to accept this, she asks her influential grandfather for support to retake the exam. He agrees but sets a condition: during preparation she must accept blind dates, and marry after the exam. Caught in a dilemma, Nie Yu meets young military officer Meng Jingyang, who is vacationing at Zhaoshan. His background is a mystery; knowing they belong to different worlds, she nonetheless, under her grandfather's pressure and friends' encouragement, tries to fake a flirtation to placate him. She grits her teeth and approaches, but her conscience overwhelms her and she flees. Meng Jingyang has long seen through her scheme and is deeply impressed by her.

After the plan fails, her grandfather, unwilling to press her further, postpones the blind dates until after the exam. Nie Yu goes to Yancheng and does not contact Meng Jingyang again. At the Jiang household she faces a cold biological mother, an uncle's family with ambiguous attitudes, and a hostile cousin. To study in peace, she often goes to the retirement home library, where she runs into Meng Jingyang again. To avoid awkwardness she tries to keep away, but chance encounters bring them together repeatedly, and feelings gradually grow. Her grandfather raises the blind dates again, troubling Nie Yu. Meng Jingyang proposes a once-and-for-all solution—marriage—and Nie Yu, shocked, also sees her own heart clearly...

Editor's review

Sunshower follows Nie Yu, a girl who failed the college entrance exam, as she repeats her senior year and faces emotional choices, weaving childhood family trauma, generational control, and self-growth into a light, sweet urban romance. Author Scottish Fold Cat excels at advancing relationships through delicate psychological detail: Nie Yu's stubbornness and hesitation, her grandfather's conditional support in the name of love, and Meng Jingyang's steadiness and insight form a tense triangle. The novel's strength lies in not avoiding real predicaments—the regret of missing an exam, the unease of living under others' roofs, the pressure of marriage conditions—all rendered vividly; meanwhile, the library encounters at the retirement home and the flirtatious testing that ends in flight keep the brisk pace of romance reading. Suitable for segmented reading on commutes or before bed, following the heroine as she balances exam pressure and budding feelings, savoring the growth lesson of "become yourself first, then talk about rushing toward someone."

Who it's for

A good fit for

Young female readers who enjoy campus repeat-year and coming-of-age themes
Romance readers who prefer delicate psychological portrayal and slow-burn relationships
Readers who resonate with native-family issues and want to see the protagonist break free
Urban-fiction fans who need light, segmented reading on commutes or before bed

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting strong plot, fast-paced suspense, or workplace conflict
Those sensitive to or easily upset by blind-date pressure and generational coercion
Readers who prefer serious literary narrative and reject romance conventions

Reading tips

Read chapter by chapter, noting Nie Yu's psychological shifts each time she faces her grandfather's conditions to trace her growth arc.
Slow down at the retirement-home encounters, comparing her avoidance and approach to understand how her feelings gradually develop.
Keep sticky notes for native-family scenes; after finishing, revisit her interactions with her mother and cousin to sort out the origins of her personality.
If time is fragmented, track the three threads—exam retake, family, romance—separately to avoid confusion.

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番外之婚礼
番外之怀孕（1）
番外之怀孕（2）
番外之怀孕（3）
番外之有女融融

FAQ

Why did Nie Yu fail the college entrance exam?

The material shows that shortly before the exam she missed one subject due to an accident and thus failed, not because her grades were poor. She was an excellent student, and unwilling to accept the result, she asked her influential grandfather Jiang Zhu for support to retake the exam.

What condition did her grandfather set for supporting the retake?

Her grandfather agreed to support the retake but required Nie Yu to accept blind dates during preparation and marry after the exam. This condition put her in a dilemma and directly led her to approach Meng Jingyang and fake a flirtation to placate her grandfather.

What was Meng Jingyang's attitude toward Nie Yu's approach?

Meng Jingyang had long seen through Nie Yu's scheme and was deeply impressed by her, but did not call her out. Later, through repeated encounters at the retirement home, feelings gradually grew, and he ultimately proposed marriage as a once-and-for-all solution.

Is the romance line slow-burn?

From the material, Nie Yu first approaches him under her grandfather's pressure and flees when her conscience stops her; later, through chance encounters at the retirement home, feelings gradually arise. Overall it is a gradually warming slow-burn romance, not a fast-paced love at first sight.

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About the author

苏格兰折耳猫 Author

Su Ge Lan Zhe Er Mao is a Chinese online author whose work centers on modern romance and youth literature. Public information about her is limited, and her real name, nationality, and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. The library currently holds twenty of her works, including If You Had Never Come, How Could I Grow Old, Best Wishes, Love, Sunshower, and the multi-volume novel Once Upon a Time in the Compound, published in upper, middle, and lower parts. Judging from these titles and their categories, her writing tends to explore urban relationships and youthful growth, depicting emotional entanglements and the warmth of everyday life with delicate, realistic strokes. The multi-volume format of Once Upon a Time in the Compound shows her sustained commitment to long-form storytelling. These works have circulated among readers and form the main basis for understanding her creative profile.